The Fourth Exhibition

  The vast and mysterious world has been full of strange things since ancient times. The "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is even more mysterious, passing down these secrets in a divine manner. In that era when modern people cannot explore, how many mysterious and strange things have appeared in this vast expanse of years?

  The Ya Shen ancient tribe is an extremely mysterious tribe, and its people know the law of ghosts and gods. The queen of Ya Shen created the most evil and sinister magic. In addition to the mysterious "Three-eyed God", there are two great treasures, one called "Jiao Jiao Jin Hao" and the other called "Long Zhu".

  These two treasures are unknown in origin, but there have been records of such ancient artifacts from the dawn of heaven and earth being divine objects. Their origins are unknown, and they shouldn't be seen by humans. Once they fall into the hands of certain tribes, they will inevitably give rise to evil thoughts. Even a semi-divine queen like her couldn't avoid being deluded, creating the "Tendon Technique" which was later passed down through the ancient Dian kingdom as the "Gu" technique, both of which are harmful and evil methods that show humans shouldn't possess extraordinary abilities.

  I was deeply affected, my father died because of this, fortunately I met Youzi, a fellow practitioner who knew the origin of the curse. The two of us made up our minds to find the "Jiao Jiao Jin Hao" to lift this calamity.

  But I was originally going to take Youzi to Liu Shu's shop to see that "number core", but Youzi suddenly received a message from the informant, it seemed that an archaeological team had recently discovered a prehistoric civilization site, and the ancient stele unearthed had a divine bird with "one eye and one wing" carved on it, which was the totem of that "Man".

  I had guessed earlier that the Ya Shen tribe was related to the "Man", and now that I've heard this news, I immediately told You Zi to pay attention. After repeated investigations, we finally got unexpected news.

  The site of the "Man" totem ruins is located in the deep mountains near Tengchong County, Yunnan. Pits 3 and 4 have been destroyed, while pits 1 and 2 have yielded some artifacts, including stone tools, turtle shells, animal bones, and a slave burial pit. According to preliminary judgment by experts, this site should belong to an ancient tribe from the Great Flood period. The excavation site is a sacrificial altar, where turtle shells and animal bones were used for divination, and slaves were used for human sacrifice.

  But in just two days, even more astonishing news arrived.

  According to the description of the informant sent by Oil Sub, the archaeological team discovered another ancient tomb not far from the altar after more than a month of excavation. The ancient tomb was buried with the shaman king of the "Man" totem tribe. Due to the special geographical structure of Tengchong County, the shaman king's tomb was well preserved. The archaeological team dared not excavate it privately and only salvaged a few artifacts from a grave pit that had collapsed more severely.

  These cultural relics are all precious gold and jade, among which a golden utensil is the most eye-catching. On it, there is a snake-shaped pattern, which can be deciphered into four characters: "Jiao Jiao Jin Hao"!

  I and Youzi received the news, almost jumping up, really there is such a coincidence in the world. We had no clue about finding this treasure, but it appeared by itself, and surprisingly transformed from a mysterious device into an artifact. In this way, although we learned the whereabouts of "Jiao Jiao Jin Hao", on the contrary, it became even harder for us to get it.

  At this moment, we didn't have the mood to go to Liu Shu's shop. Oil son was not giving up, saying he had a way to get "Jiao Jiao Jin Hao" in his hands, but it was very dangerous. That treasure was a national treasure, if things went wrong, we would lose our heads. He asked me if I dared to follow him to try.

  I'm a bit worried, but since we're doomed either way, might as well give it a shot. So I told him, you decide what to do.

  Youzi said, "Actually, this matter has been done properly and there shouldn't be any problems, it's just that we can't rule out the possibility of an accident. You should first go back to your Uncle Liu's place and stay for two days, at least make your Uncle Liu think you're normal, otherwise when the time comes and things aren't done cleanly, the police will investigate and they'll definitely ask your Uncle Liu."

  I shook my head and said Uncle Liu wouldn't betray me. But I still called Uncle Liu, deceiving him by saying that a friend who studied abroad had returned and I wanted to accompany my friend to have fun for a while. Uncle Liu didn't say anything, nor did he know if he suspected that I was deceiving him, but only told me to pay attention to safety when playing outside.

  These days, I and Youzi have been paying attention to the movement of those cultural relics. Later, we heard that an exhibition will be held in the city. Youzi said that the opportunity has come, and he was busy making phone calls to make arrangements. I saw him dial a number, seemingly an internal person, and couldn't help but feel strange, asking: "Is it a museum staff?"

  "Security guard."

  I was shocked and asked him how security would help us with such a dangerous thing.

  "Youzi said: 'This kid is my brother, he used to be a grave robber too. But once he was almost suffocated by the corpse's aura in a coffin and nearly died in the ancient tomb. I risked my life to get him out, but unfortunately, although he no longer has his life in danger, he still has lingering symptoms and can't even touch half a point of corpse aura again.'"

  I nodded in agreement, unable to bear the aura of death, which meant that this person would never be able to do manual labor again, no wonder he became a security guard.

  After the oil son's arrangement was in place, we continued to rehearse the plan for two consecutive nights. The oil son said that most of the cultural relics placed in the display cabinet were fake, especially the "Jiajiao Golden Vessel". What was put on display must have been a counterfeit made by an expert, and the real one was still locked in the safe deposit box. According to the plan, we could enter the safe deposit box very smoothly, but the password of the safe was only known by an archaeologist named "Su Qin".

  "What should we do then?"

  Youzi said: "There's no other way, we can only find an opportunity to get close to her and then try to intimidate or entice her."

  This guy seems to be a ruthless character, but when it comes to matters of life and death, we can't afford to be merciful. We should do things neatly and avoid pushing ourselves to the point of killing. Once we get the gold, let's follow the escape route arranged by this guy and lay low overseas for a while. After the dust settles, no one will be able to track us down.

  The exhibition was held as scheduled, and I and Youzi were among the first batch of visitors, following the crowd into the exhibition hall. This time, we didn't plan to take action, just conduct an on-site inspection. The exhibition will be open for several weeks, so there's no rush.

  The vault was on the lower level, with two guards standing at the entrance. I had a guilty conscience and only dared to sneak a glance in that direction, not daring to look again.

  Then the matter of examining the terrain was all handed over to Youzi, and I followed the crowd to take a look. The exhibits in the display cabinets were all cultural relics excavated from the "Manman" totem site, just as the online friend described. There were many stone tools, turtle shells, animal bones, and even several pieces of fossilized rattan armor, which seemed to be the battle armor of the Ya Shen tribe's soldiers back then.

  I casually picked one up and read the introduction, and sure enough I found that it was a replica because on the card it said "the original object was unearthed in XX Mountain, Tengchong County, Yunnan Province". If it were genuine, they wouldn't have added the two words "original object" at the beginning.

  Just after walking for half a circle, Youzi ran to my side and said, "Let's go, the target is over there."

  I turned my head and found that many people were crowded around a showcase in the center of the exhibition hall, with a woman explaining to the audience in the middle. I squeezed up with Youzi to take a look, and indeed found a golden trumpet displayed in the showcase.

  The horn is shaped like a rhinoceros horn, with a small hole at the tip, which is the mouthpiece. The body of the horn gets thicker towards the back and looks to be about half a meter long. I asked the people in front to make way for me, and as I walked forward to take a look at the introduction, I saw that it was written: "Jiǎo Jiǎo Jīn Hào, Length: 53.3 cm, Tail end outer diameter: 12.2 cm, Tail end inner diameter: 8.8 cm, Xia Yu Dynasty." The original artifact was unearthed in XX Mountain, Tengchong County, Yunnan Province, and is a single piece. The body of the horn is shaped like a rhinoceros horn, with a blowing hole at the top and a blunt tooth at the bottom. The body of the horn is engraved with ancient wedge-shaped characters "Jiǎo Jiǎo Jīn Hào". Experts from the National Cultural Relics Bureau have determined that the era of Jiǎo Jiǎo Jīn Hào is the Xia Yu Dynasty, and it has been designated as a first-class cultural relic. The Jiǎo Jiǎo Jīn Hào is not made of gold, but rather made of specially crafted bronze. This is currently the most advanced bronze artifact discovered from the 20th century BC, but experts speculate that this artifact cannot be blown to produce sound, and its purpose remains a mystery.

  I had already made a guess in my heart when I saw this, and it must be because the trumpet was missing its core that it couldn't be blown. At this time, Oil suddenly elbowed me with his elbow and whispered to me in a low voice: "Look at the ID card on that woman's neck."

  I only then noticed the young woman standing in the crowd, explaining things to them. She seemed even younger than me. Her face wore a faint smile as she slowly explained things to the crowd. I glanced at her ID card hanging from her chest and was suddenly shocked - under the name column, the two characters "Su Qing" were written - the password for the safe deposit box with the golden corner lock was in this woman's hands!

  Then, I and Youzi started to secretly observe from the side. After a while, that woman named Su Qin seemed tired of talking and slightly apologetically bowed to the onlookers before walking out of the crowd. Youzi blinked his eyes and suddenly whispered something in my ear. Upon hearing it, I was shocked and couldn't believe he could come up with such a despicable trick.

  Youzi saw me hesitating and pushed me, saying: "Hey, this kind of opportunity to hook up with a beautiful girl isn't available every day, you see how good I am, I'm giving this chance to you."

  I rubbed my forehead and asked, "Will this work?"

  "Listen to me, it's okay. Hurry up, she's leaving!"

  This kid is obviously going to drive the ducks onto the shelves, I have no way out, standing up and pretending to unintentionally approach Su Qing, Youzi lowered his head and wore a duck tongue hat, walked around the exhibition hall for half a circle, and deliberately went behind Su Qing.

  Just as I was about to brush shoulders with Su Qin, You Zi suddenly rushed out from behind Su Qin, pretending to have an urgent matter, shouting "Excuse me" and intentionally bumped into her with his shoulder.

  I seized the opportunity and was about to go and support Su Qin, who was about to be knocked down. But unexpectedly, Su Qin's face suddenly changed, and with a light and casual movement, she dodged the oily kid, who slipped away from her side like a puff of smoke. He had a guilty conscience and didn't even dare turn his head back, quickly disappearing into the crowd.

  However, my heroic action of saving the beauty has already been done, and the scene is suddenly extremely awkward. Su Qin looked at me in a daze for a moment, I hastily stood up straight and said to her: "Sorry, I thought you were about to be bumped by that person just now."

  Su Qin smiled slightly, revealing two very good-looking canine teeth, and said: "It's okay, I'm fine, but thank you anyway."

  She said that and stretched out her right hand to me, I was confused at this time, put my hand on the clothes to wipe it, then grasped it, in my heart had already scolded this oily boy countless times.

  "Sorry, I still have something to attend to, so I'll take my leave first." Su Qin smiled and nodded at me before turning around and walking towards the entrance of the underground vault.

  I don't know what I was thinking at the time, but suddenly I shouted from behind: "Miss Su."

  She turned around and saw me looking at her, with a smile of slight surprise, asking me: "How did you know my surname is Su?"

  I pointed at her ID card and saw she understood, then said: "That... be more careful next time."

  She was stunned for a moment, realizing that I was talking about the incident where Oil Zi bumped into her earlier. She smiled at me again but didn't respond anymore, took two steps back before turning around and walking away.

  I didn't dare to meet Youzi immediately, fearing that others would find out that the commotion just now was a collaboration between me and Youzi, so I wandered around the exhibition hall for a while before leaving.

  As soon as I came out of the exhibition hall, I saw Oil standing at the bottom of the stairs. Seeing me walking down with a dark face, he first covered his head and said, "No matter what, I've saved your life once, so please do one thing for me - don't hit my face."

  I kicked him in a fit of rage: "Damn it! You got me into trouble today, next time I encounter something like this, I'll never get involved again!"

  Youzi looked a bit wronged, I don't know if it was fake or not. He stared at me for half a moment before regaining his composure and said to me: "That woman is not simple, she should be skilled in both civil and martial arts."

  You'd better stop making excuses, you can't even hit a woman, I think you're just all talk.

  "He said: 'I'm not kidding you, that woman really has skills. She just used the backpedaling technique from martial arts, and her reaction was extremely quick.'"

  I waved my hand and said: "Forget it, forget it, anyway I've already met her."

  Youzi heard the words and burst out laughing, patting my shoulder and just about to say a few more words, when suddenly an explosion sounded from within the museum, immediately after which a thick smoke emerged from behind the building. Quickly, the crowd inside the exhibition hall began screaming and rushing out, the internal alarm blaring, each security guard busily scrambling to evacuate the crowd.

  Both I and You Zi were shocked, looked at each other for a moment, and then rushed back to the exhibition hall without saying a word.